Misunderstood
I had dissolved myself into you.
I only wished to say,
I wanted to live in you forever.
But incompleteness was written in my fate,
so you thought, departure was the true solution.
Be Happy
I love you,
and that’s why I could never wish you harm.
May you stay at the highest peak of happiness,
even if that happiness exists without me.
My Person
You are mine,
so hurt me as much as you wish.
I’ll endure it all, thinking,
the one who hurts me is mine.
But don’t give me the sorrow
of seeing you with someone else,
that’s a pain I could never bear.
Buying Sorrow with Joy
I lived in my mother’s womb in peace,
yet I lacked sorrow there.
So I came among you,
to trade my joys for grief instead.
In the Prison of Affection
Your love was a crime so grave,
that my punishment was life imprisonment,
and I was locked away
in the prison called attachment.
The Lover’s Crime
So many in this world don’t even wish to see you,
yet they can.
To them, you are no one special,
but to me, you are unique, unmatched.
My chest burns with the thirst to see you once,
yet I cannot.
Is that my only crime?
That they are no one to you, and I am your lover?
Futile
How short our lives are,
and how foolish we are!
The time we were meant to spend for ourselves,
we waste memorizing others’ sins.
Distance - 3
Such distance, isn’t it?
Those who are loved, don’t love back.
The ones who love truly,
aren’t loved by those they love.
They give priority to the ones who never value them.
Those who want to make someone their own,
are the very ones who step aside.
And they surrender themselves,
to the ones who never wanted to take responsibility for them.
Mother
From the sacred womb of the woman
through whom I first saw the light,
she is the one I have hurt the most.
And yet, it’s not that she gave me nothing in return.
If ever any human has loved me,
then that human is she.
Desire
Even after loving you so deeply,
after holding so much affection for you,
after begging the heavens for you,
I still couldn’t have you.
Why wouldn’t there be regret?
Why wouldn’t I have a claim over you?